ARTISTIC FLOODLIGHTS
A digital archive of six exhibitions that effectively made the invisible visible
Artistic Floodlights serves as an enduring digital mirror for six temporary exhibitions that, in their countering of historical absences in art scholarship, public spaces, and museums, changed the history of the "Institution." Curated by activists, scholars, and artists, these exhibitions actively forged a new canon through placing as much focus on the art, people, places, and voices left out as the institutions who left them out.
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Image: "Identify: Performance Art as Portraiture—Jeffrey Gibson: To Name An Other" took place May 22, 2019 at 5 p.m. at the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C.
"It's forcing the issue of perception by rendering an image that is just at the edge of perception, which in someway forces you to look more closely and for you to adjust your vision so you can see in the dark."
Kerry James Marshall
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Kerry James Marshall (American, b. 1955). Untitled (Studio), 2014. Acrylic on PVC panels. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Purchase, The Jacques and Natasha Gelman Foundation Gift, Acquisitions Fund and The Metropolitan Museum of Art Multicultural Audience Development Initiative Gift, 2015 (2015.366)
"I think there is a sea change finally happening. It's not happening everywhere, and there's still a long way to go, but there's momentum."